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Relient K almost a reliant flambe! Opa!

Filed under News/Band and Industry Gossip and News/Mean-spirited Humor by s.alex.solarte

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Relient K must have pissed off one too many groupie. (or is it group-i?) Early Thursday morning, the band was roused from their sleep on their tour bus when the bus driver started yelling, “Fire!”

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Guess who is planning a reunion tour? And no, Tito, it’s not Michael.

Filed under News/Band and Industry Gossip and News/Mean-spirited Humor and News/Musical Funny Stuff by s.alex.solarte

THE SPICE GIRLS ARE RETURNING FOR A WORLD WHORE TOUR!

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Source - The Daily Mail

Dust off your plastic thermoses and anatomically incorrect collector’s dolls because the Spice Girls are coming to a country near you. Obviously, the end is upon us and the rapture is nearing because the Spice Girls will embark on a 25-city devouring the souls of impressionable children and lecherous old men. And the tour can start as soon as Christmas! By the power of Jeebus, I compel you, someone please stop the Spice Girls. What, you aren’t scared? Well, take a gander at them now!

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Amy Winehouse, shows SPIN Magazine her inner emo

Filed under News/Band and Industry Gossip and News/Mean-spirited Humor by s.alex.solarte

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Source - Dlisted

Amy Whinehouse Winehouse demonstrated her admiration for self mutilation in front of a journalist from Spin Magazine when she started to carve the words “I Love Blake” into her own stomach during an interview.

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Beth Ditto, in all her… err… hot.. err well. Nevermind.

Filed under News/Band and Industry Gossip and News/Mean-spirited Humor by s.alex.solarte

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Source - ONTD

Beth Ditto performed tonight at the Glastonbury Festival in Jolly Ole England. Now, many of us heavier set listeners praise her to be the second coming of dearly departed Mama Cass. Hell, she even has the tattoo to prove it. But what is it about her that makes scenester, fagsters, hipsters, and poseurs alike indiscriminately drawn to her? And no, it’s not gravity! (though a very good theory I hadn’t really thought of)

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I can only dream that Britney Spears ends up as pathetic as Tiffany

Filed under News/Mean-spirited Humor and News/Musical Funny Stuff by Commissar Startastic

I was surfing the web looking for info on gold ‘ole Presidents Bush veto of the recent stem cell bill and stumbled on this:

Tiffany may quite possibly be the worst singer ever

She should stick with taking her clothes off.

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Newbury Comics to unveil Marilyn Manson pint glass in mere hours

Filed under Cities/Boston and News/Mean-spirited Humor by Christine

mmglassCalifornia has Amoeba. New Jersey has the Princeton Record Exchange. New England has… Newbury Comics.

What is Newbury Comics, you uninitiated ask? Well, if you listen to some of our more mookish locals, it’s the Best Record Store Ever–you know, much in the same way that Fenway is America’s Favorite Ballpark, even though it features “Fan Service” instead of Customer Service and the aforementioned fans are generally jerks to anyone who dares to enter the hallowed space wearing the opposing team’s colors.

Okay, so I’m obviously jaded NOW, but when I first moved here, I naively believed that no lover of America’s favorite pastime would jeer at me (not to be confused with “heckle me,” which is fine because it requires some measure of intelligence) for four entire innings of a ballgame. I also did a lot of retail therapy at Newbury Comics because I was lonely and bored, and the store was a warm place to go on a frigid winter night. That, of course, should have been my first tip-off. Much in the way that Fenway (albeit historic) is not terribly representative of America’s other ballparks (where middle-to-lower class folks can generally afford to take the kids on a family outing), Newbury Comics (although convenient) isn’t much of a record store.

Whereas your average REAL record store devotes ninety percent of its (linoleum) floor space to dusty racks of CDs and vinyl, relegating most extras to wall displays, Newbury Comics gives up about forty percent of the (carpeted) floor to New England sports paraphernalia.* Worse, because all of the Hot Topic locations in the greater Boston area are located in the South Shore suburbs (hmmm…) Newbury Comics has decided to pick up the slack. For this reason, at Newbury Comics one can buy such classy bumper stickers as “Fuck Me I’m Irish” and “I’ve Got the Biggest Dick in the Band.”  In short, the store’s interior looks suspiciously like the bastard child spawned when a Spencer’s Toys and Gifts drunkenly hooked up with a Tower Records to celebrate the Pats’ victory in Super Bowl XXXIX. Kids, remember that the closer you are to that cherry bedroom set from Jordan’s Furniture when you open that six-pack of Narragansett, the more regrets you’ll have the morning after.

Speaking of beer, Newbury Comics has now combined all of its usedglassbest elements–novelty items AND music–to bring you the Newbury Artist Pint Glass* series. The first musical “artists” featured in the series were The Used, whose limited-edition pint glass debuted on May 22, 2007 and almost certainly sold out (only 1,000 copies were made!). The next musical artist is Marilyn Manson, whose pint glass will be guaranteed to those who pre-ordered a copy of Eat Me, Drink Me and available to the rest of the public starting Tuesday, June 5.

Tragically, I won’t be able to make it to the store on June 5 because I’ll be at the Paradise seeing The Sea and Cake (a band that believes in a kinder, gentler form of drinking and eating). If anyone wants to pick up a Marilyn Manson pint glass for me, that’d be… um… wicked cool. Yeah!

Release date: June 5, 2007
Label: N/A
Rating: 3/10 (the text on the glass is clearly a credsuck, but the heart is kind of cute)

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